Cerebrium raises $8.5m led by Gradient
Cerebrium, the serverless AI infrastructure platform, announced an $8.5 million seed round.
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Cerebrium, the serverless AI infrastructure platform, announced an $8.5 million seed round led by Gradient, with participation from Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures, and several strategic angels and operators.
Founded in Cape Town, South Africa and now headquartered in New York City, this new funding will allow the team at Cerebrium to invest in new features and meet surging enterprise demand.
Cerebrium was founded by Michael Louis and Jonathan Irwin after struggling to build their own AI-driven products. “Tooling was fragmented, there was an education gap between theory and production, the unit economics didn’t make sense, and development cycles took months,” said Michael Louis, CEO and co-founder of Cerebrium. “We built Cerebrium so engineers can focus on building AI products users love that have real business impact instead of hiring an infrastructure team, racking up six-figure cloud bills or worrying about security and compliance.”
The Cerebrium platform is purpose-built for high-performance, real-time multimodal AI applications: voice agents, LLM fine-tuning, video models, and large-scale data analytics use cases. While Cerebrium is known for its serverless GPU infrastructure, it also offers the ability to do batching, multi-region deployments, large scale data processing and much more. This enables teams to run compute-intensive workloads with minimal setup, scale elastically, and only pay for what they use, without the complexity of managing infrastructure while adhering to strict security and data residency requirements.
“What the Cerebrium team has pulled off with such a small group is incredible. They’re powering some of the most advanced AI voice and video applications at scale and we believe specialised infrastructure which scales elastically will be essential as real-time AI becomes core to customer experiences,” said Eylul Kayin, partner at Gradient.
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